By Elizabeth Piper, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the …
Exclusive-Schlumberger faces employee backlash in Russia over cooperation on draft
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) – Some of oilfield service firm Schlumberger’s more than 9,000 Russian employees have begun receiving military draft notices through work, and the company is not authorizing remote employment to escape mobilization, according t…
Exclusive-EU ministers to discuss Iran drones to Russia, future sanctions – sources
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -European foreign ministers will on Monday discuss the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia and could come to a political agreement on future sanctions related to such activity, two diplomats said on Friday. Ukraine has re…
Wall Street banks’ profits slide as economic clouds loom, some beat forecasts
By Saeed Azhar, Noor Zainab Hussain and Niket Nishant (Reuters) -Profits slid at Wall Street’s biggest banks in the third quarter as they braced for a weaker economy while investment banking was hit hard, but investors saw a silver lining with some ban…
Khamenei warns Islamic Republic is a ‘mighty tree’ that cannot be uprooted
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday said that no one should dare think they can uproot the Islamic Republic, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody ignited na…
Russian women pay the price in protests against Putin’s war
By Lena Masri and Charlie Szymanski LONDON (Reuters) – Women in Russia make up a rising proportion of those being detained in protests against President Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, data show, as many Russian men fear being sen…
Swedish Moderates party leader strikes deal to form minority government
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The leader of Sweden’s Moderates party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Friday he had agreed a deal with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals to form a minority coalition government after the right-wing bloc won a majority in last mon…
Ukrainians brace for blackouts, hard winter after Russia pummels power grid
By Stefaniia Bern and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Liubov Palii was sitting at her computer when the lights went off in her one-bedroom apartment after Russian strikes pummelled Ukraine’s energy network. She started to play with her four-month-old baby …
Five killed including police officer in North Carolina shooting
(Reuters) -Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead on Thursday, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of the North Carolina capital of Raleigh and resulted in the suspect being “contained,” Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said….
Elon Musk under federal investigation tied to Twitter deal -Twitter court filing
By Tom Hals and Sheila Dang WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc, the social media company said in a court filing made public on Thursday. Twitter said it reques…